Seven or eight sheets of crumpled paper on the floor represent seven or eight attempts at a critique of "Nothing Sacred." which opened at Metropol Theatre yesterday Each of these attempts suffered fror the sume weakness—the absence of a forceful opening sentence which would best epitomize this film. The difficulty is not so much the finding of something to to choose ne feature articular and stress it.
One might, for instance, praise the excellence of the technicolour by soying that after a while one fails 10 notice that it is there, so true to lite does it become. Or in, one night compliment Mr. Ben Hecht the author, on the power of h satiric pen in this story of a "small-own" girl who cozens the entire el! of New York—she bec ti Celebrity of the Day simply because he Great American Public, thank that guardian of its virtue Tulloid Press, mistakenly he i dying from radium poise to fake another exible ell on the deliciousness f the lines that brought ise down ta typical one being Mr. March's comment apropos the funeral arrangements We tried to get the President to come, but he's still fishing"). One might suggest the story is too much of a burlesque. and that most people will not enjoy it; one might be clever by saying this, but one would also suffer from a strong conviction that one would be wrong. One might pat Miss Lombard and Mr. Winninger on the back for their roles and thank Mr. March for not being such a roaring, ranting lion Fand scene-stealer as he is usually.
Perhaps, however, one had best just leave it at something on the line: of in "Nothing Sacred" the Nanking-Metropol combine have an extremely Agthy Stage-Door Audiences who enjoyed one will enjoy the other It seems a pity the shorts are not par. The coloured c to shows what great advance made since 1935; the other we of equal into EGO.
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